Oceana press releases share updates on our campaigns and mission to protect and restore the world’s oceans. They include explanations of the issues that our oceans face, our work to solve those issues, and ways that you can advocate for ocean protection and restoration.
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A coalition of environmental groups led by Oceana and the Mercury Policy Project released the results of a major, 22-state mercury testing project today, confirming that store-bought swordfish and tuna…
Virgin thousand-year-old deep sea corals and sponges may be protected from being plowed under by commercial fishing practices from a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate. Remarkable for its bipartisan…
More than 2,000 Oceana activists across America signed up to stage a coordinated appeal to their local grocers to post signs wherever any fish subject to the Food and Drug…
This summer’s amazing story about a record, 873-pound bluefin tuna caught off the coast of Delaware by a recreational angler took an unfortunate twist Tuesday, when international ocean conservation group…
“>Georges Bank cod populations, already a tiny fraction of sustainable levels, have declined by 25 percent from 2001 to 2004, a drop revealed by federal scientists during their first update…
“>Oceana’s research catamaran, Ranger, filming and photographing illegal driftnet fishing off southern Italy, was chased in the high seas and narrowly escaped a ramming attempt by angry Sicilian commercial fishermen whose…
— Jackie Savitz, Pollution Campaign Director for the international ocean conservation group Oceana, which has been running a campaign to get the United States’ nine remaining mercury-based plants to shift…
